Self Respect Quotes - Page 7

• Hard work breeds self-respect.

  Pat Summitt

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Self

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.24, Crown Business

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• I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was. Don't tell me I can't do something. Don't tell me it's impossible. Don't tell me I'm not the greatest. I'm the double greatest.

  Muhammad Ali

  Self Esteem, Purpose, Impossible

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• It is disgraceful to live at the cost of one's self-respect. Self-respect is the most vital factor in life. Without it, man is a cipher. To live worthily with self-respect, one has to overcome difficulties. It is out of hard and ceaseless struggle alone that one derives strength, confidence and recognition.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Struggle, Men, Self

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• Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with Self Respect and Integrity ingrained in their lives.

  Pandurang Shastri Athavale

  Integrity, Military, Self

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• Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.

  Denis Waitley

  Respect, Powerful, Integrity

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• Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they will never go to an urban slum.

  Bunker Roy

  Self Confidence, Opportunity, People

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• As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Respect, Unique, Ethics

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• Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external percepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Integrity, Self, Judgment

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• The one who fights back retains his dignity and his self-respect.

  Jeff Cooper

  Fighting, Self, Defense

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.9, Paladin Press

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• I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

  William Faulkner

  Courage, Integrity, Believe

  William Faulkner, Joseph Leo Blotner (1978). “Selected letters of William Faulkner”, Vintage

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• I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for this murder, and see that such actions are inconsistent with the poetic perception, however they may serve science, and will affect the quality of my observations. I pray that I may walk more innocently and serenely through nature. No reasoning whatever reconciles me to this act. It affects my day injuriously. I have lost some self-respect. I have a murderer's experience to a degree.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Animal, Self

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Material Faith: Thoreau on Science”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Perform anonymous service. Whenever we do good for others anonymously, our sense of intrinsic worth and self-respect increases. ... Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.

  Stephen Covey

  Powerful, Self, Influence

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God.

  Desmond Tutu

  Self Esteem, Special, God Image

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• How would your life change if your self-esteem improved?

  Caroline Myss

  Self Esteem, Life Changing, Ifs

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• We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Self Esteem, Self Worth, Desire

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• Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work, faith and willingness to sacrifice. We can win and keep our own self-respect and build a great union that will secure the spirit of all people if we do it through a re-dedication and re-commitment to the struggle for justice through non-violence.

  Cesar Chavez

  Struggle, Commitment, Hard Work

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• I hate that you don't have the insight.
  I hate that you shamelessly returned despite being kicked out.
  I hate that you don't even seem to have the slightest self-respect.
  And also the fact that you used San as your "heart-wrenching" excuse to return.
  Back to this hell-hole.

  Cho Gun-woo

  Drama, Hate, Heart

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• The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.

  Thomas a Kempis

  God, Self Esteem, Lowest

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• All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Self Esteem, Men, Extraordinary

  "The papers of Woodrow Wilson".

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• The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

  Mark Twain

  Self Esteem, Facts, Difficult

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• If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Friendship, Real, Self Knowledge

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.24, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Everything starts with yourself-with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life.

  Tony Dorsett

  Self Esteem, Mind, Making Up

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• There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.

  Thomas Merton

  Self Esteem, People, Shining

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.155, Image

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• Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.

  Norm MacDonald

  Respect, Prudent, Reverence

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• Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the inspirational preachers of Christian sunshine, who are able to pick you up and set you back on your feet and make you feel good for three or four days-until you fold up and collapse into despair. Self-confidence is a precious natural gift, a sign of health. But it is not the same thing as faith. Faith is much deeper, and it must be deep enough to subsist when we are weak, when we are sick, when our self-confidence is gone, when our self-respect is gone.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Spiritual, Sunshine

  Thomas Merton (2003). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.190, Shambhala Publications

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